GERMAN AMBITIONS IN THE PAST.
THE SILK STREET ROUTE, There are numerous indications that after the war Germany will change her
THE HONGKONG DAIEE PRESS THURSDAY MARCH 1ST 1917
RE-BUILDING VITRIMONT-
AMERICAN WOMEN'S WORK.
FRENCHWOMEN AND THE
WAR
WORK IN THE FIELD.
STATE ENCOURAGEMENT.
AFTER LONG YEARS. JOY DAYS IN ALSACE AND
EEN LORRAINE
UF HERRY WOOD, UNITED PRESS SEWA CORRESPONDENT]
Should the present war end without the anal restitution to France of Alsace and Lorraine only one supportable alterna Live would be left to the inhabitants of those provinces. This would be to dispose
[RY "THE TIMES" STECIAL CORRESPONDENT] A little way west of Lunéville and Imperial programme. As all the world north of the Forest of Vitrimentin [FROM A CORRESPONDENT TO THE TIMES." knows, she began this present war in the which, after the Battle of the Grand Couronne, the bodies of 5,000 of the m
in August, 1914, found the hope of destroying British sca-power and vaders of Lorraine were picked up, agricultural population in the middle of establishing German world-dominion on America is husily and quietly at work the labours of the harvest Only the basis of German naval supremacy repairing one tiny little bit of the great women, children, and old men were left This ambitious plan not only violated monesting inde of woman, man were of their farms, homes, and factories at overy tradition of Prussion policy, but was contrary to the most inspired teach ings of the great Bismarck,
Bismarck was always & Continentalist It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the carlier nspirations of the Hehe
despite the fnot that in the 17th and 18th centuries Prussia had more than once endeavoured to become a naval
the German left behind them when they were driven back to the frontier, 12 miles away, in the fifth week of the war. The American lady at the head of the work who has taken up her abode in an out-of-the way corner of the pile of ruins that once wore the village of Vitrimont, could probably give us convincing an
a
much an account, of the noble sentimente
over
numerous class
is the unanimous
By far the most
Frades as 16 wag to repel the invader, and, moving over into France, begin life necessary for the preservation of whatever financial sacrifice was necessary, again, wants of Alsaco and There was no time to get on foot an
opinion elaborate organization Recognizing the
Lorrai who now find themselves within important services which the women of the French lines, and amongst whom I France could render in this crisis, M. have just spent five days Vivian, the ripeal to then up eppadin, geraaitants from Alsace und Minister of the way there are now three State, Bismarck to the end of his life answer as anyone as to the reasons why Which deserves to live in history not so Lorraine who are under the protection of France, at all events will go on fighting is expresses as on account of the mug the French the refugees remained a believer in the fact that Ger till she has won an unbreakable peace. fecat response which it called forth who, with the outbreak of the war, four- many's destiny had Continental limite In August, 1814, the Germans had the He believed that if Germany we ever village in their hands for 48 hours. The daughters and cons of the Fatherlandployed by Germany gainst them; fed into
* Up, then, women of France, children, ing the harah measures that might to hold world dominion it could only be day before they had bombarded it with Replace on the field of labour those who France. A second class, and by far the with the active assistance of and in held-guna and blown to pieces half of are on the field of battle. Prepare to happiest of all, are those whose homes, Alliance with Holland, Austria, Russia, its 60 or 70 farmhouses and cottages show them, tomorrow the land Farms and factories are located in those and And Before left to they completed cultivated, the portions of Alsace and Lorraine now octete
ow that Germany, before many months rain by setting are to every single house falds sowed. In these hours of trial there have passed, may be compelled to that was still standing. That was more is no labour which is mean, Everything classes comes a third that represents one by the Trench. After these two abandon her dreams of sea-domination than two years ago After a time many great which serves the and return to the theories of her old Iron of its old men and women and children to action To work! Tomorrow there of the highest forms of patriotism. These Chancellor,
are wealthy industrials of Alsace -- and Within the last few months a Gorman dead or away fighting--begun to come It is unnecessary to elaborate Lorraine for the most part owners of
the able-bodied men were all either will be glory for everybody, b Persian Union and a German-Chinese back to their wrecked homes, and to ex-
of the war, unhesitatingly abandoning large factories--who, with the outbreak, Union have been chtablished siste temporize among the charred beams and
their property made their way into Parsischer und Deutsch-Chinesischer blackened stones and twisted ironwork
France
aspect of the subject, Suffice it to say there unted erith successfully surmounted. But with the continuation of the tho women have
Verband) On ard April, 1916, at the some kind of refuge in which they might many cases been called upon to perform OVER THE BATILE LINK.
headquarters of the letter organization find shelter and begin once again to till in Berlin & lecture entitled Was Gel their fields. They were helped to some
Bay of them from the high peaks of the Vosges now in the possession of the
Uns China AD?" was delivered by an extent by the French Government, who continuous struggle that makes the most refich can look out over the plains of influential member of their sent men to roair a few of the house Parliament, in which the lecturer claim which had suffered least those, that is ed that Gorman world-empire could be to say, which had only boca bombarded stablished only on a hasis of an overland To restore those that had been burnt was dominion extonding from the North Sea work that they had not, for the moment, to China by way of Turkey and Persia the time to undertaken tog The reasoning behind this suggestion W PLANS OF THE NEW VILLAGE. not only sound, but subtle and deserves the attention of every Imperially-minded Englishman. It is an idea which must be combated as vigorously and strenuously
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we are now shattering Germany naval idea, and
The speaker argued that the present war would be followed by an era of conomic atrife, and that many of the world's best markets would be more of less closed to Germany. In any future war the British Navy would be able even more effectively than now to prevent raw material and foodstuffs reaching Germany from the Americas. A British blockade, however could be rendered absolutely ineffective if Germany con- trolled the ancient trade highway frome Farone to the East known as the Silk: street. Persia and China could easily provide the legions of 1927 (the date of Germany's next great attempt), with all
go
effort of a few weeks duration, but a a task that involves, not a superhuman
severe demands upon Exit physical lances, see the smoke from their factories strength, and which they sustain with the management of their higudustrial behind the Germann lines, and wonder if a praise. They have shown themselves not their hunda Yet they are just as u patient endurance that is beyond all
establishments wilLever again come under only courageous, but possessed of a degree
those who have lessor hat if animous as
financial of technical skill and qualities of practi
at stake in declaring t interesta cut common sense which were not hitherto Alasco and Lorraine fail to be reattached In the early days of the war, as I popularly attributed to their sex. Mme to France they prefer to sacrifice all and wont from one to another of theses ruined B., who is a widow, has a property of begur life anew in Franco rather villages, I used to wonder whether the some hundreds of neres in the
than department hark
nuder
German régime French would ever be able to build them of La Sarthe. Her tennats have all been From 1877 to 1914, this
regime, they up again. Thy undertaking seemed to he mobilized, and are unable to cultivatedcolure, was o only rendered bearable by the almost impossible. Now, in the case of their farms. Rather than let the hand go firm hope and coar
viction, that one day ous of then, thanks to two American out of cultivation the has undertaken the of another France would come
to take her women, one of whom provides the reces management of the whole estate herself. "wo lost provinces. Should, that fail now sary funds, while the other is giving up posal a gang of 10 prisquer, of war with osing on their children and their child- The authorities have placed at her dis they declare they could not think of im her life to the supervision of the work their assistance she has succeeded in rea's children the life, which they have on the spot, the impossible is being accomplished. Before long, if the csscarrying on, and has thus done a supported for years past. Their sentie tial labour can be found, of which, woman's part towards maintaining the ment to day, they declare, is unalterably happily, there seems to be no question, is not an
economie Franca The instance the same as that expressed by the depu Vitaimont will be a vilage again. It Tho French are not a
not a sentimental ties of Alsace and Lorraine in 1871 when will also, which did not necessarily nation, and all this work has been under they fled their memorabile petition in the follow, remain & Lorraine village taken without any hope of praise or German
National French Assembly against the According to the plans which the reward. But the latter has been forth the two, provinces
for demands the possession of architect with a women's tact and judg coming in a manner worthy of the dignity that timent of nationality, repressed ment and taste to help him has pre- of the country and calculated to emphasize
A Bill sinco 1571 pared farms and cottages will be rebuilt the rational importance of the services fullest form, and in parlours and salons fils expression in its on almost the old foundations and in thus rendered. The Council-General of of the more wealthy families proud re
provide medals for Certain are, those worted 2 the terenice is made to the fact that amongst
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their
one.
Courage
"in
the fronoh
the great and immortal men of France
Kellermaan, who saved France at Valmy,
well he Kleber and Nor, popular the Revolution and of the Empire
LIBERTY AND EQUALITY.
They speak with equal pride of the long played by Alsace Sin the more impor- Lant events of
róle
liberty and dance Ogie for
thing
quired finally to establish the Touton as he introduced, but none, I think, which the mater of Europe and Asia.
could possibly offend the taste of the department who have shown, in a marked ment Germany - boully negotiating for is far more important, of be encanta tie, terke of field and jana. No doute
It is known that at the present momost conservativo of restorers, what degree, their courage and patriotism inace contributed such men as General valuable railway canal and trading themselves. of all of them other departments will follow conccisións, in China; that her system wives The object more and example but even wishout in puble f commercial and political capionage paterair. The school and one or two other recognition France can never forget the has been strengthened and ramified
displayed throughout the whole of Siberia, in the of the public buildings will be shifted to debt she owes to the women who have Ukraina, from the Black Sen through more central positions, and the fumiers, which is the furro
or manure-heaps, which are the sun SEPARATION ALLOWANCES.
of how Alsace, Irkunk and Toheran to the Far East prasoft feature and the pride of all The que
reunited to
under the reign of The question of separation allowances in Louis XIV. participated with all the and that the powerful Siemens Combine these Lorraine villages, will be placed in France is closely Allied to that of the intelligent ardour of the other French which owns all the rich copper or yards at the back of the houses, tasted work of women in agriculture, but it is the Cancosus and in Armenia, has recent of overflowing from the footpath in front also of interest to English randers because its object the establishment of the Frotich provincer in the Revolution that had for y samt bodies of specially trained experts
the greater dexibility of through Persia with the object of dis on to the main rondway. In all other is illustrates
the village will practically bo French Edministrative institutions as com tate on a basis of liberty and equality respects,
pacs in the final def.see covering and opening lip new sources of the same as it was before, buils of the nared with ours. A las of August 5th of the Republic, aid, above all, the one mineral wealth. At finne eispory perut same gray store, and roofed with the 1916, established the general principio die thing that means more to them then asy-
f the Veröffentlichungen Reichsam red tiles
neither wife nor dependent of a
else, they speak of these Kolonialamates at Berlin (Publications It is. I believe, the intention of the of France should want for the means of their own native tongue without fear of of the Berlin Colonial Olfen) for 1910 State to allow the peops in all these subsistence by reason of his military ser- German retribution for the offence
sufficient to prove that the Carma ruined villages 40 per cent of the cost, vice. In conformity with that law the
The past Christmas in those portions of authorities are not only alive to the con of reconstructing their houses, and to Préfets nominated. Cantonal Commissions Alsace nad
Lorraine Bow being adminis mercial possibilities of this new ido lend the balance of the money at an easy and Arrondissentent Commissions of tered by the French was perhaps the hip-
spective departments. but also to its political and military rate of interest, But even on those terms appeal in their
1870. It was also a remarkable tribute value, for these publications contain fre the restoration of their homes must for The members were to be chosen primarily Pest that has been celebrated there since querit reports of Asiatic exploitation and a long time be beyond the powers of theen on grounds of personal character, and to to the progress which the local popula point out the importent results, com-nhappy victims of German barbarity, a lesser extent on account of local know tions have made under the French regime,
ledge or representative position. A Christmas trees were held in nearly all mercial and strategic, which will accrue
and it is not casy to think of any way Superior Commission, which is the ulti-schools in which the children, who two Two other facts only need be mention in which wealthy and generons-minded mate Court of appeal, was at the same years ago hail not been allowed to learn ed here to prove the tenth of my con people in France and other countries can time constituted at the Ministry of the word et French, gave dialogues, songs, tection. The Hamburg-Ameriku. Idne do more to relieve the distress caused by
Interior has enddenly revealed a suspiciously the war than by following the fine ****
at he or she and recitations in which only the who thinks that he or
perfect Any person
ed vivid interest in Persia, and his heavily example of the two women who have sen has a claim to an allowance applies to the the slightest accent
ear of a Frenchman himself could trace In at least one. nf Invested money in certain German work to restore the fallen walls and Mayor of the local commune Practically these celebrations the climax came when, Persian schemes. Finally a prominus the fallen fortunes of Vitriment every town and village is the headquarters after having given the programme in German coonomist, by name Quess, hos For here, surely, is one of the casen in of a cominuun The Mayor sands the French, all the children, directed by the deblazed that Cermany, by controlling which, out of the hideous evil of the application to the Pastoral Commission French soldier who had taught them, join- the Asiatic market, can become self-sup- war real and abiding good may be made If the latter approves, the applicant gets in singing, in English, God Save thie porting so far as cotton and copper TO to flourish. The homeless refugees of the the allowance immediately and receive King.
oucerned (Quessel, Die Deutschen Incastern provinces of France are many payment from the revenue officin, who
Sozialistische thousands in number. The other day I visits the villages once a month for teressen in Ostastru. Monatshefte, 1016, 3, 4)
- daw nearly 1000 of them, old men, purpose Sep
Separation allowances are Marion, the Prussian writer and Privy women, and children, housed together in fortnightly in the towns. If the past Office undertook the management of Councillor, in a remarkable book entitled Nancy For them and all their com Commission respond to
the application of women found
declared that Germany's future lies wonders. It must be many many years arrondissemission in Paris if nece the United Kingdom are a kind of
Berlin Baghdad, published in 1907,
and
way. Do very
the vational
quration allowanges, and it is a moatter of the it dimonlt to establish relations with it. panions in ditress the State is doing women from that to the
The institutions of local government in
Asia and in the air. Perhaps the most before they and their children can forget Saperior
very close organic unity with the significant chapters in this book are those ther loathing for the country and the eary. The two lower Commissions work excresceline on the body politis, and have which contain a close and clever exposi marauding armies that brought their independently of the Préfotic intral authority Probably this is why
on of the strategical value of the region cous sufferings upon than you have indeed, represented by a delegate, but the it was considered imposible on
Latter is only there to give information able to utilize their services in this between the Alta and the Himalaya only to touch on the subject of the war On the other hand the Préfet recoves Mountains, knows as the Gobi Desert to see at ones under the apparent sur from time to time & report on the way matter. In the end the Post Office, Was This region is spoken of as the key of face patience and content, the depths of in which the various applications have
given important functions in this con- Asia and the central tableland of the agony and anger that they cover. And been dealt with, and can cause an appeal action, for the simple reason that it in
the only branch Old World.". Maatin states thab wore that is where the people of countries to be made if he thinks fit, qu Germany to control this vast plateau it outside France have their great chance. WORK OF THE MAYORS administration which is found in every mal air-base in the world. A thousand vinces of France can never humanly women cannot well misspend her allow allowances the French have taken account. would be developed into the most formid For as the villagers of the eastern pro- In the country districts, at any rate, a town and village of the kingdom.
their administration of separation soper-Zeppelins could be stationed there speaking, forget the blood stained handa ance without its coming to the ears of of the agricultural eccities of the Indis could be threatened on the one that were the cause of their misery, so the Mayor, who is in a position to exercise
to deal mide, Russia, on the other. But Germany they will always remember, from one a moral influence over her if that fails country. It was necessary
the applications of must be fist in the sir. Then, and generation to another, the compassionate he can report her conduct to the Pastorn sympathetically with the app only then, will she be able to hold the hands stretched out to them from across Commission, which on withdrak her women who had a little land and tried
work it Women who sought to supple- principal overland route to the East the sea to build up again their ruined allowance, or make other arrangements, ment their allowances by working
with the consent of her husband, for the ethers were encouraged to do so, and were and to establish her transcontinental homes and stricken liver.
maintenance of her children if their interests are in question. Needless to say not penalized by having their pensions These are the facts. That German statesmen are contemplating a change of
this power does not frequently require to withdrawn. On the other hand, if they à first few show a disposition to desert their forms,
without due cause, to go and live in the Imporial policy after the war is regard
be exercised. In the sireen of the weeks of war practically every applion
towns on the national in well-informed neutral circles as
bounty, the Com- tion that was made was granted, but when practically certain. The present writer
allowances. rently sought the opinion on this sub
the Commissions and more time to missions have power to withdraw the This, however, in a very Ject of a responsible neutral politician,
examine individual cases many allowances
I have been told that in lated phenomenon, and the power in waro withdrawn. who said that a transcontinental
wero
exercised. Empire from Antwerp to Shangoai
question does not seem to have been ould andcabtedly be Germany's reply
who believe in the mission and in the dostiny of their race, is how can Ger many's new idea be defeated 1
There is only one answer to euch a qucation, Germany must be isolated England, on the other hand, must strength en and consolidate her foreign alti ancos, and, with the help of Russia, must the case of one or two departamente at out across the Silk-street? She must be any rate the local Commissions were
to the decisions of the Paris Conference first in the air, as on sen, and she must do more sparing of the public funds than Buch an empire would be not only in Persia what she has done in India the Sunerior Commission of the Ministry particularly inimical to British intoreat; Most necessary of all, ale must capture of the Interior
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